Re: IMAP issues

[Peter Bloomfield <bloomfld eos ncsu edu>]

On 2001.07.28 15:36 Petter Sundlöf wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Here are some issues that prevent me from using Balsa as my mail client
> (one of the last pieces of proprietary software I still have installed
> is Netscape, my current client).
> 
> 1) Subscribed folders only should explicitly include mbox, even if mbox
> isn't in the .mailboxlist -- they should all be in the same tree (this
> is behaviour of all clients I have tested -- Netscape Mail & Microsoft
> Outlook Express)

Can you elaborate? Is `mbox' a folder? If so, why should it get special
treatment? I thought `INBOX' was the only distinguished folder. And what is
`.mailboxlist'? I don't seem to have any file of that name.

> 2) The possibility to mark IMAP folders as Drafts, Sent, Trash etc
> without having them being moved out of the IMAP tree

Works for `Sentbox'--I haven't tried `Draftbox'.

> 3) Automatically "move" Drafts, Sent messages et cetera to
> the appropriate folders on the remote IMAP server

Works for `Sentbox'.

> Also, setting up an IMAP account should be in the Preferences, just like
> any POP3 account.

Yes!